Years Ago @ MindSay

Ok, maybe some of you old-timers may remember that I had a bad experience buying an iPod on ebay (about 3 years ago).
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Anyhow, I can't find the entry that said I finally got a refund from this incredibly fishy guy. After all of my threatening to report him to the police, I was just glad to have my money and didn't report him.

Somehow, he got prosecuted, because I'm not sure that he returned everyone's money. Basically, if you don't know the story, he was selling "fake" iPods on ebay and then said, "Oh I sent them." He had a couple different names and addresses in Ohio and it was a big pain.

So I never offered any additional testimony or anything. I had my money so I could get a real iPod from the Apple store. But still. Justice is now being served. He'll be out in 2 1/2 years.

(Moral of the story is to not sell fake iPods on Ebay. They'll find you.)

So I was engaged en years ago. Didn't work out after a great deal of cheating on his part. Logged on Facebook and guess who decides to say Hi.

 

who does that!

So 12 years ago I was in Hungary. And they have these comforters that are like...so amazing. They keep you warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Why I never thought about getting one before, I don't know. So today I got one off Amazon. There were comforters with higher thread counts, but I got one that was mid-range. Someday, maybe I'll get the 1200-count one. But there were rave reviews about the other ones, so I figured it would be good enough for now.

There comes a time in life when you have to let go of all the pointless drama and the people who create it and surround yourself with people who make you laugh so hard that you forget the bad and focus solely on the good. After all, life is too short to be anything but happy.

My best friend of 8 years crushed me a few months ago.We were inseparable. She was my advisor and the person who kept me grounded.For years i told the world how wonderful she was to me. Her two boys are my God sons. they call me Auntie Tracia. So you can imagine how i felt when i found out just how good of a friend she was to me.

She has had a hard life. The father of her oldest son left her when she became pregnant and the dad of the second has a woman in every part of Jamaica. I tried encouraging her to be independent and live for her sons instead of men but she couldn't understand. She has a obsessive personality when it comes to relationships. Raiding phones for numbers, calling other women and so on.I completely understand how she feels. it is not easy to not have someone to go through life with when you have two kids to think about, its even worst when for the second time the dad of the child loses interest. being a friend to both him and her i was placed in the middle constantly. She has it in her head that they are a couple and he constantly tells her that he doesn't want her.

To make along story short. When she and i met i was in a very bad relationship so i guess she felt good about that. after all, we were in the same boat. I don't have any kids yet but i was strongly in love with someone that used me every chance he gets. Their are some "friends" that like being friends with you because you are no better of than they are.

I finally came to my sense and left that relationship and was single for two long years. i needed time to heal. Two years ago i met Derrick. He is the most wonderful man i've ever met. We fell in love, hard and have been going strong ever since. we are buying a home together now, opening a business and getting married and starting a family soon. I guess by now you realise that my very dear and best friend of 8 years is finding all sorts of problems with us. "i don't spend enough time with her, i'm always busy" mind you i see her almost everyday. It got to a point where she started spreading rumors on me. I still tried with her as much as i could. Derrick keeps telling me she is not a good person because she has tried to sway his mind from me but i refused to believe my friend was in all rights, a fiend.

About two months ago she sent me a text saying that she don't ever want to speak to me again becasue i was never a good friend to her and i don't see her anymore. this is someone i gave my last to at all times. When she had no where to go i moved her into my home for almost a year expenses free. I couldn't believe what i was reading. I texted her back. NO PROBLEM. Months passed and i didn't call, text , see or even think about calling her. i was so hurt. when she realized i wasn't showing any interest she told a mutual friend of ours that as soon as Derrick leaves me, which he will, i will come running back to her. I called her and let her have it then. Now she keeps calling and texting me trying to patch things up. I'm i wrong for wanting nothing to do with her? How can people you've known for so long turn around to be your worst enemy? One things for sure, i'm never trusting or investing my time in any more friendships the way i did with her. It's not worth it.

Oh What a Weekend:

Friday night party at the Vanella's
- Mrs. Vanella, I like everything you do - I like the way you move! - Sean
- Thumper
- Yohe, Chris, Josh, John with the funny shirt(s)
- Jimmy Buffett in the kitchen
- The lights going out...twice...
- Bomb punch chugging contest between Joey and his mom
- 13
- NICOLE
- 43 year old women; Quinny and John.  Discuss.
- Rick Rude baseball games.
- 3 bouts of rain and storm, and then...the sprinklers came on.
- Nicole and I told Kathy the hotdog story...

Saturday night block party in Island Park
- Lindsay, Kristina, Nora, Jaimie
- EDWIN.  And Edwin remembering the good old days when I called him EdLOSE <3
- Erin not able to call me
- Etienne.  Etienne actually GREW.  Maybe 5 inches?  I think he broke 7 feet a whiiiiiile ago....eep!
- "I've seen Emily more in the last 2 nights than I have in the last 4 years" "6 years, Chris"  "Shiiiiiiiiiit"
- "You look really familiar. I know you" - Dan Travers, who I used to live around the corner from.  The boy who used to offer me rides - such a nice family.  Glad I didn't mess up and call him Sean.  I can't believe Sean has been dead for 5 years. I can't believe I didn't go to the memorial while I was so near by.  I wish I knew him better; I have never heard a bad word spoken about him.
- Bomb and his cousin, La Bamba.
- Old crushes.  For the first time since I was a senior in high school, I was in the same vacinity as Danny K.  We took our time to talk to each other (though I talked quite a bit to George, to be shared below), but eventually got there.  Joked about how I don't live in WH anymore, had to get to Mass, and how I was turning tricks to get there.  I was able to be brave enough that when he said that was a lot of tricks, I told him '2 at the most; I'm just that good'.  5 yaers ago I would NEVER have had the balls to deliver a line like that.  Baby steps.  He's still really cute, unfortunately.  He got heavier (I saw photos) but looked better last night.  Couldn't see his eyes in the darkness, but I know they're still gorgeous. 
- George:  "When we had that class together, we were friends".  We were friends?  George and I?  Hilarious.  Also, I called George 'Rob' by accident (actually, I said, 'where IS George' and he said "I AM George". I miss Rob).
- John with the funny shirts (last night's was about squirrels) went to give me a hug and just went and picked me up.
- Getting to put my feet up on George's back.
- Realizing I STILL don't like Mike T., and that it's OKAY that I still think he's a douchebag.  I don't have to like everyone, and I really don't like him.  He was such a jerk back then, and even though we didn't exchange words, I know he's still the same kid.  Hasn't evolved at all.  Chestnut's probably the exact same way.  I have forgiven everyone else; I mean, I hugged and kissed Yohe, who I know was one of them....but I will never forgive Teich and Chestnut for continuing it.  And it feels GOOD to not just forgive them because time has passed.